Trio nabbed in Chittagong with 1 lakh yaba

Dhaka- Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) recovered one lakh pieces of contraband yaba pills and arrested three people in this connection from Bohaddarhat of port city Chittagong on early Sunday.Sources at the Rab headquarters here said based on secret information, a special team of Rab-7 detained a Dhaka bound passenger bus of Reliance Paribahan from Cox’s Bazar under the flyover bridge of Bohoddarhat at around 3:00 am.Searching the bus, the elite force recovered one lakh yaba tablets, which were kept inside the engine cover of the passenger bus.The anti-crime force arrested three people— Kazi Shisir Ahmed alias Rony, 35, Ashar, 19, and Md Sohel from the bus in connection with recovery of the contraband drugs.During preliminary interrogation, the arrestees revealed that they were involved in smuggling of yaba tablets from Cox’s Bazar under cover of driving vehicles, he said.